Table 2.
Operational definitions, measurement systems, FA variations
| Number of studies (percentage of sample) | ||
| Operational definitions and measurement systems | Left designated area | 7 (58%) |
| Event recording | 3 | |
| Partial-interval | 2 | |
| Duration | 1 | |
| Latency | 1 | |
| Exceeded distance from therapist | 4 (33%) | |
| Event recording | 3 | |
| Partial-interval | 0 | |
| Duration | 0 | |
| Latency | 1 | |
| Sat/stood in designated area | 1 (8%) | |
| Event recording | 0 | |
| Partial-interval | 1 | |
| Duration | 0 | |
| Latency | 0 | |
| Number of FAs (percentage of sample) | ||
| FA variations | Multi-element | 25 (93%) |
| Latency | 3 | |
| Reversal | 2 (7%) | |
| Latency | 1 | |
| Brief | 1 (4%) | |
| Latency | 0 | |
| Pairwise | 1 (4%) | |
| Latency | 1 | |
| Number of studies (percentage of sample) | ||
| Method of resetting opportunity | Retrieved after SR delivery | 7 (58%) |
| Therapist reposition | 1 (8%) | |
| FT prompts to an area | 1 (8%) | |
| Not specified | 1 (8%) | |
| NA (latency FA) | 2 (17%) |
Each article was scored for only one operational definition and one measurement system. Thus, the sum of operational definitions and the sum of measurement systems are each equal to the number of studies (12)
FA functional analysis, SR reinforcer, FT fixed time, NA not applicable